
Robert Watson is a member of the
FreeBSD Project's core and security-officer teams, and founder of the
TrustedBSD Project. For his day job, he is a Research Scientist in the network security research group at NAI Labs, studying operating and network security issues. His primary contributions on the FreeBSD Project come in the form of security enhancements to the system; the TrustedBSD feature set arriving in FreeBSD 5.0 will include file system access control lists, mandatory access control, and support for fine-grained privileges. DARPA is now funding a FreeBSD security research and development project at NAI Labs, and they also sub-contract to a number of independent developers in the FreeBSD community to complete that work. Read more for our exclusive interview with Robert.
It is great to hear that Trusted OS system will be integrated to 5.0R. FreeBSD will be sure more powerful and production ready for us, system administrators and also for all *BSD community. I am sure other BSD licensed OSs will integrate such a feature in their systems after 5.0R comes out.